About six years ago I had a dream that I would write a novel called Staring at the Sun from Underwater, about a young man trying to escape from the horror and routines of everyday life who begins having vivid and seemingly prophetic dreams, and then gets stuck in his dreams and must struggle his [...]
In German legend, the doppelgänger or double-goer is a ghostly version of oneself who follows us like our shadow. When it appears however, the doppelgänger becomes a harbinger of death, pointing Shelley to his drowning in the Mediterranean, or a portent of the future, like Goethe meeting his future self on the road to Drusenheim. [...]
The other day I finished moving into a new apartment in the Friendship neighborhood, and in the morning after my first night there I looked out my third story window and was shocked to realize that the view corresponds almost exactly to the view from the window of the house I lived in years ago [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
Inspired by recent poetry readings, I’ve started working on some new verses for the first time in years, and in the process went back through some older unpublished works to find and edit this piece, which is essentially a catalog of places I visit in my sleep. Enjoy! The Somnolent Territories roving insomniac landscapescities hung [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
I finally started reading the text of Jung’s Red Book last night, and it is as revelatory, revolutionary, and vitally important as I suspected it would be, not just in terms of Jung’s psychological theories but in taking a stance for a broader spiritual approach to reality that is even more lacking now than when [...]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
I couldn’t sleep last night, as inspired as I was having begun to read Carl Jung’s Liber Novus, his “Red Book.” My first impression is that this is a massive tome; at 16x12x2” it is easily the largest book I’ve ever laid hand on, and just turning the pages takes a substantial effort. But it’s [...]
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
This NY Times article was too good not to post, it reminds me of some of the flash science-fictions I was working on in the spring [via metafilter]: A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature [...]
Monday, September 14, 2009
For my class on Narrative and Technology I was asked to create what’s called a literacy narrative, the story of my development as as “content producer/consumer” (to use the parlance of the age, focusing also on how our experiences with media have helped us develop standards of quality. The results were interesting and integrating, somewhat [...]
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
It’s always interesting reading a book after watching (and being a big fan of) its movie version, especially in this case where the book’s translation was only finished after the movie came out. Perhaps the main difference in this story about dreams taking over reality through stolen psychotherapy devices is that, unlike in Satoshi Kon’s [...]
